One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee "stole betwixt" the speaker "and the dreadful outer brink" and begins "The face of all the world is changed, I think." In its first poem, the speaker describes being drawn "backward by the hair" by a "mystic Shape" misidentified as Death. This collection's title refers to the (*) pet name of the
One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee "stole betwixt" the speaker "and the dreadful outer brink" and begins "The face of all the world is changed, I think." In its first poem, the speaker describes being drawn "backward by the hair" by a "mystic Shape" misidentified as Death. This collection's title refers to the (*) pet name of the author, who was nicknamed for her dark complexion. Its first poem begins "I thought once how Theocritus had sung," and its title refers to the author's poem "Catarina to Camoens." The forty-third and penultimate begins "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For 10 points, name this collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee "stole betwixt" the speaker "and the dreadful outer brink" and begins "The face of all the world is changed, I think.
{Sonnets} from the Portuguese